#Self Sabotage Quotes

“Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.”

“Keep doing what you love to the best of your ability. Stop judging and get out of your own way.”

“You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.”

“Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."”

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

“Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck”

“Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?”

“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”

“People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.”

“You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.”

“Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.”

“There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.”

“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.”

“Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.”

“He has no worse enemy than himself.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.”

“It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.”

“When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”

“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”

“We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.”

“Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.”

“The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution.”

“If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause”

“Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.”

“Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.”

“James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”

“No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”

“Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”